UK chip firm XMOS picks RISC-V for next-gen microcontrollers • The Register

RISC-V Summit British chip company XMOS has revealed its latest xcore high-performance microcontrollers are to be built around the RISC-V open standard instruction set architecture, in the hopes of opening…

LSE to sell 4% stake to Microsoft in 10-year migration deal • The Register

Microsoft said this morning it expects to pull in $5 billion in revenue from a deal with the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) to haul the British exchange operator’s data…

US Dept of Energy set to reveal fusion breakthrough • The Register

The US Department of Energy (DoE) is expected to announce a major milestone in the ongoing effort to generate clean power through nuclear fusion. According to reports in The Financial…

TOR project releases latest version of its eponymous browser • The Register

The latest Tor Browser is a specially packaged version of Firefox 102 ESR which does all the hard work of setting up a TOR connection. Version 12 of the Tor…

Broadcom braced for full EU probe into $61B VMware buyout • The Register

Broadcom may be facing an in-depth investigation into its $61 billion takeover of VMware by EU competition watchdogs, dashing the corporation’s earlier hopes that its buyout would not meet any…

Apple dials back self-driving car goals to launch in 2026 • The Register

In brief Apple’s plans for an autonomous vehicle are being pushed back at least one year to 2026 after Cupertino reportedly scraped its previous designs.  The (kind of) top secret…

Google once again postpones Chrome extension overhaul • The Register

In September, when Google delayed its Chrome extension platform makeover, we predicted, “This may not be the last time Google revises its transition timeline.” Now, in mid-December, just a month…

Twitter Blue costs $11 per month on iOS instead of $8 • The Register

Comment You would have thought that after Twitter chief Elon Musk and Tim Cook schmoozed a bit at Apple’s headquarters, the two would’ve reached some sort of common ground following…

Governments to keep spending to erase technical debt • The Register

Parts of the commercial world might be saving their money in 2023 with one eye on progress across the economy but the public sector will keep on spending amid continued…

A month on, network improvements come to .NET 7 • The Register

A month after unveiling the production release of .NET 7, Microsoft has introduced several networking enhancements that touch on issues including security, the HTTP transport layer, and APIs. Software engineers…

Pwn2Own wraps with nearly $1m paid out to ethical hackers • The Register

Pwn2Own paid out almost $1 million to bug hunters at last week’s consumer product hacking event in Toronto, but the prize money wasn’t big enough attract attempts at cracking the…

ChatGPT looks confident, and that’s a terrible look for AI • The Register

Opinion There’s a new chatbot in town, OpenAI’s ChatGPT. It is a robot researcher with good communication skills; you can ask it to answer questions about various areas of knowledge…

Ventana tempts hyperscalers with custom RISC-V server chip • The Register

RISC-V Summit Ventana Micro Systems is set to unveil a family of datacenter-class processors based on the RISC-V architecture, which it claims will allow buyers to customize the chips to…

Microsoft greases skids for data migration to Azure • The Register

Microsoft is introducing a new tool intended to help make migrating files and folders from on-premises systems to the Azure cloud that much easier. The new Azure Storage Mover, a…

VMware loses three top execs who owned growth products • The Register

VMware has revealed that three senior executives have chosen to leave the company. The three departed staff are Tom Gillis, Mark Lohmeyer and Ajay Patel. Gillis was senior vice president…

Elon Musk booed on-stage at SF Dave Chappelle gig • The Register

In a bizarre move Elon Musk took to the stage with Dave Chappelle at a comedy gig in San Francisco this weekend to a chorus of boos, and little in…

China bins its COVID tracking app • The Register

China discontinued operation of its COVID tracking app on Monday as part of the Middle Kingdom’s transition away from a dynamic zero-COVID strategy. According to an announcement from the state-run…

US Department of Energy spends $2.5b on car battery plants • The Register

The US Department of Energy will loan battery maker Ultium Cells $2.5 billion to build three new manufacturing plants in Ohio, Tennessee, and Michigan, for America’s iconic car business. “DOE…

Raspberry Pi shortage is abating just in time for holidays • The Register

Raspberry Pi enthusiasts, rejoice: around 100,000 RPi Zero W, 3A+, and 2GB/4GB RPi 4s are being distributed to resellers for holiday season consumer sales. Commercial and industrial customers, on the…

Artemis I returns safely, some cubesats lost in space • The Register

NASA’s Orion capsule splashed down on Sunday, capping a very successful Artemis I mission for the Americans. That said, it was a less successful even for the mission’s 10 tiny…

Crypto villain Sam Bankman-Fried arrested in Bahamas • The Register

Bahamian authorities have arrested Sam Bankman-Fried, the former CEO of collapsed crypto exchange FTX, after he was indicted on criminal charges. News of Bankman-Fried’s cuffing arrived in a tweet from…

Galactic anti-nuclei travelers could demystify dark matter • The Register

Scientists have used data from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider to show how antimatter can travel long distances through the Milky Way, a result they hope could uncover the secrets of…